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Five new National Digital Stewardship Residents will be joining the Library in late September 2016. Selected from a competitive pool and representing five different library schools, the residents bring a range of skills and experience in working with digital and archival collections. The NDSR program offers recent graduates an opportunity to gain professional experience under the guidance of a mentor. They will acquire hands-on knowledge and skills in the collection, selection, management, long-term preservation and accessibility of digital assets.

Throughout the year, residents and their mentors will attend digital stewardship workshops at the Library of Congress and at one of their five host institutions in the greater Washington, D.C. region.

Meredith Broadway of Dallas, Texas, has a Master of Science in Data Curation and Certificate in Special Collections from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a bachelor’s degree from Rhodes College. Meredith will be a resident at the World Bank Group focusing on an assessment framework and appraisal guidelines for identification of data for permanent preservation; a set of analytic process document guidelines to enable documentation of processes used in the collection and analysis of data; and guidelines for linking datasets to related documents and analytical reports.

Joseph Carrano of Middlebury, Connecticut, has dual Master’s degrees from the University of Maryland in History and Library Science, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut. Joe will be part of a team at the Georgetown University Library developing open-source project guidelines, documentation and workflows for different preservation platforms. He will be involved in all stages of the process of inventory, selection, curation, preparation and ingest of files of all formats.

Elizabeth England of Washington, DC, has a Masters degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor’s degree from Drew University. Elizabeth will be a resident in the University Archives at the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, applying core archival functions such as appraisal, accessioning, processing, preservation, description, and provision of access to a 50 terabyte collection of born-digital photographs, using scripting languages and tools that are vital to manipulating large data sets.

Amy Gay of Binghamton, New York, has a Masters degree in Library and Information Science from Syracuse University, and a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York, Oneonta. Amy will be a resident at the Food & Drug Administration, Office of Science & Engineering Laboratories, Center for Devices & Radiological Health, working on the “CDRH Science Data Catalogue Pilot”; a joint project to develop a searchable digital catalog for data sets, software code, computational models, images and more as part of federally mandated public access efforts. She will lead catalog content acquisition and curation, as well as refining the metadata schema and taxonomy.

Megan Potterbusch of Nashville, Tennessee, has a master’s degree from the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, and a bachelor’s degree from Earlham College. Megan will serve as a resident at the Association of Research Libraries working in partnership with the George Washington University Libraries and the Center for Open Science to prototype the process of linking the output from a university research unit to a library digital repository through the Open Science Framework — an open source tool that integrates and supports research workflow.

This is a guest post by Shira Peltzman from the UCLA Library. Last month Alice Prael and I gave a presentation at the annual Code4Lib conference in which I mentioned a project I’ve been working on to update the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation so that it includes a metric for access. (You can see […]

Do you have fifteen minutes to tell the National Digital Stewardship Alliance about your organization’s web archiving activities? If the answer is yes, please contribute to the NDSA Web Archiving Survey. By filling out this short survey, your institution will be part of a multi-year project to track the evolution of web archiving programs in […]

The following is a guest post by Chelcie Juliet Rowell, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University. In this edition of the Insights Interview series for the NDSA Innovation Working Group, I was excited to talk with collaborators on Cornell University Library’s Preservation & Access Framework for Digital Art Objects project: Madeline […]

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance announced that it has selected the Digital Library Federation (DLF), a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), to serve as NDSA’s institutional home starting in January 2016. The selection and announcement follows a nationwide search and evaluation of cultural heritage, membership, and technical service organizations, in […]

On behalf of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group, I am excited to announce the 2015 NDSA Innovation Award winners! This year, the annual innovation awards committee reviewed over thirty exceptional nominations from across the country. Awardees were selected based on how their work or their project’s whose goals or outcomes represent an […]

The following is a guest post by Lauren Work, digital collections librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University. In this edition of the Insights Interview series for the NDSA Innovation Working Group, I was excited to talk with Bradley Daigle, director of digital curation services and digital strategist for special collections at the University of Virginia, and R. […]

The NDSA Infrastructure Working Group’s goals are to identify and share emerging practices around the development and maintenance of tools and systems for the curation, preservation, storage, hosting, migration, and similar activities supporting the long term preservation of digital content. One of the ways the IWG strives to achieve their goals is to collaboratively develop […]

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance has been awarded a special commendation in the Preservation Publication category for the 2015 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship from the Society of American Archivists. The award recognize outstanding published work related to archives preservation, and was presented as part of the 2015 SAA annual conference in Cleveland, Ohio. “The […]

The following is a guest post by Kevin Powell, digital preservation librarian at Brown University. On September 25th, UMass Dartmouth will host the National Digital Stewardship Alliance New England Regional Meeting with Brown University. We enthusiastically encourage librarians, archivists, preservation specialists, knowledge managers, and anyone else with an interest in digital stewardship and preservation to […]

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